Friday, May 24 2013, 08:29 AM

Environment

Begonias in the garden

Begonias, those waxy, petalled, succulent plants found in greenhouses or bright bathroom corners are, surprisingly, native to Indonesia.

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  • Building a nest

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    A stork flies with material for building a nest during warm and sunny weather near Hombrechtikon at lake Luetzelsee in Switzerland, Wednesday.

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  • Kulon progo invests in green future

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    People should learn from the residents of Kulon Progo district in Yogyakarta how to treat the forest.

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  • Japanese giant works to process tsunami debris

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    Mountainous disaster debris disposal and the reconstruction of fisheries and the agricultural sector are just a few of the Herculean tasks in the 10-year recovery plan that the Miyagi Prefectural…

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  • Knitting wear tree

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    Kids hug a tree covered by knitted materials, at their school in Ghent, Belgium, Monday. The school wants to show their affection for the sole tree in the schoolyard by…

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  • Pachyderm patrol

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    Local World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Riau workers on elephants patrol the forests near Tesso Nilo in Riau on Sunday. The workers want to guide wild elephants deeper into the jungle…

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  • Recycling otters

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    Two female North American River Otters at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, N.Y., trained by zookeeper Catina Wright take soda bottles and place them into recycling bins, Wednesday.

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  • Don’t sell us down the river, ‘Pak’ Jokowi

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    Jan. 20: Was it the BBC World News or a Ben Affleck Hollywood disaster movie I watched at 6 a.m. this morning?

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  • Giant squid captured on video in ocean depths

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    After years of searching, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat deep in the ocean for the first time.

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  • Bad air more deadly than traffic accidents in China: Study

    Breathing in tiny particles in the air may have killed up to three times as many people as traffic accidents did in Beijing and Shanghai, according to a first of…

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  • National environmental movement mourns the passing of a leader

    For the helmsman of a tech-savvy, archipelago-spanning NGO, Hapsoro cut a distinctly retro figure. In Bogor, his home base, people remember him on “car-free” Sunday mornings riding a beat-up bicycle…

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